Changeset 388 for python/vendor/current/Misc/HISTORY

Timestamp:

Mar 19, 2014, 11:11:30 AM (11 years ago)

Author:

dmik

Message:

python: Update vendor to 2.7.6.

File:

• python/vendor/current/Misc/HISTORY (modified) (32 diffs)

python/vendor/current/Misc/HISTORY

@@ -1155 +1155 @@
   configure would break checking curses.h.
 
-- Bug #959576: The pwd module is now builtin. This allows Python to be
+- Bug #959576: The pwd module is now built in. This allows Python to be
   built on UNIX platforms without $HOME set.
 
@@ -1188 +1188 @@
 
 - Replaced most Unicode charmap codecs with new ones using the
-  new Unicode translate string feature in the builtin charmap
+  new Unicode translate string feature in the built-in charmap
   codec; the codecs were created from the mapping tables available
   at ftp.unicode.org and contain a few updates (e.g. the Mac OS
@@ -1643 +1643 @@
 
 - Patch #1349274: gettext.install() now optionally installs additional
-  translation functions other than _() in the builtin namespace.
+  translation functions other than _() in the builtins namespace.
 
 - Patch #1337756: fileinput now accepts Unicode filenames.
@@ -2014 +2014 @@
 
 - The sources of zlib are now part of the Python distribution (zlib 1.2.3).
-  The zlib module is now builtin on Windows.
+  The zlib module is now built in on Windows.
 
 - Use -xcode=pic32 for CCSHARED on Solaris with SunPro.
@@ -2849 +2849 @@
   GNU longname/longlink creation.
 
-- The obsolete FCNTL.py has been deleted.  The builtin fcntl module
+- The obsolete FCNTL.py has been deleted.  The built-in fcntl module
   has been available (on platforms that support fcntl) since Python
   1.5a3, and all FCNTL.py did is export fcntl's names, after generating
@@ -2986 +2986 @@
 
 - SF patch 995225:  The test file testtar.tar accidentally contained
-  CVS keywords (like $Id: HISTORY 75782 2009-10-27 14:29:22Z georg.brandl $), which could cause spurious failures in
+  CVS keywords (like $Id$), which could cause spurious failures in
   test_tarfile.py depending on how the test file was checked out.
 
@@ -3103 +3103 @@
   a release build.
 
-- input() builtin function now respects compiler flags such as
+- input() built-in function now respects compiler flags such as
   __future__ statements.  SF patch 876178.
 
@@ -3164 +3164 @@
 - Compiler flags set in PYTHONSTARTUP are now active in __main__.
 
-- Added two builtin types, set() and frozenset().
-
-- Added a reversed() builtin function that returns a reverse iterator
+- Added two built-in types, set() and frozenset().
+
+- Added a reversed() built-in function that returns a reverse iterator
   over a sequence.
 
-- Added a sorted() builtin function that returns a new sorted list
+- Added a sorted() built-in function that returns a new sorted list
   from any iterable.
 
@@ -3208 +3208 @@
   will now just hit the recursion limit.  See SF patch 825639.
 
-- str and unicode builtin types now have an rsplit() method that is
+- str and unicode built-in types now have an rsplit() method that is
   same as split() except that it scans the string from the end
   working towards the beginning.  See SF feature request 801847.
@@ -3759 +3759 @@
   builtins, present in earlier releases of 2.3, has been removed.
 
-- It is not possible to create subclasses of builtin types like str
+- It is not possible to create subclasses of built-in types like str
   and tuple that define an itemsize.  Earlier releases of Python 2.3
   allowed this by mistake, leading to crashes and other problems.
@@ -4234 +4234 @@
   PyArg_ParseTuple and PyBuild_Value.
 
-- New builtin function sum(seq, start=0) returns the sum of all the
+- New built-in function sum(seq, start=0) returns the sum of all the
   items in iterable object seq, plus start (items are normally numbers,
   and cannot be strings).
@@ -4240 +4240 @@
 - bool() called without arguments now returns False rather than
   raising an exception.  This is consistent with calling the
-  constructors for the other builtin types -- called without argument
+  constructors for the other built-in types -- called without argument
   they all return the false value of that type.  (SF patch #724135)
 
@@ -4765 +4765 @@
   a symbolic pickle disassembler.
 
-- Xmlrpclib.py now supports the builtin boolean type.
+- xmlrpclib.py now supports the built-in boolean type.
 
 - py_compile has a new 'doraise' flag and a new PyCompileError
@@ -5016 +5016 @@
   exploit this from pdb has been added.  [SF patch #643835]
 
-- The _codecs support module for codecs.py was turned into a builtin
-  module to assure that at least the builtin codecs are available
+- The _codecs support module for codecs.py was turned into a built-in
+  module to assure that at least the built-in codecs are available
   to the Python parser for source code decoding according to PEP 263.
 
@@ -5175 +5175 @@
   as directory names.
 
-- Fixed string.startswith and string.endswith builtin methods
+- Fixed string.startswith and string.endswith built-in methods
   so they accept negative indices.  [SF bug 493951]
 
@@ -5181 +5181 @@
   finally clause.  [SF bug 567538]
 
-- Most builtin sequences now support "extended slices", i.e. slices
+- Most built-in sequences now support "extended slices", i.e. slices
   with a third "stride" parameter.  For example, "hello world"[::-1]
   gives "dlrow olleh".
@@ -5196 +5196 @@
   removed.
 
-- New builtin function enumerate(x), from PEP 279.  Example:
+- New built-in function enumerate(x), from PEP 279.  Example:
   enumerate("abc") is an iterator returning (0,"a"), (1,"b"), (2,"c").
   The argument can be an arbitrary iterable object.
@@ -5745 +5745 @@
 
 - The configure option --without-doc-strings can be used to remove the
-  doc strings from the builtin functions and modules; this reduces the
+  doc strings from the built-in functions and modules; this reduces the
   size of the executable.
 
@@ -5981 +5981 @@
 
 - New Carbon modules File (implementing the APIs in Files.h and Aliases.h)
-  and Folder (APIs from Folders.h). The old macfs builtin module is
+  and Folder (APIs from Folders.h). The old macfs built-in module is
   gone, and replaced by a Python wrapper around the new modules.
 
@@ -6203 +6203 @@
 -----
 
-- New function PyDict_MergeFromSeq2() exposes the builtin dict
+- New function PyDict_MergeFromSeq2() exposes the built-in dict
   constructor's logic for updating a dictionary from an iterable object
   producing key-value pairs.
@@ -6254 +6254 @@
   This needs to be documented.
 
-- The new builtin dictionary() constructor, and dictionary type, have
+- The new built-in dictionary() constructor, and dictionary type, have
   been renamed to dict.  This reflects a decade of common usage.
 
@@ -6709 +6709 @@
   class.
 
-- The builtin file type can be subclassed now.  In the usual pattern,
-  "file" is the name of the builtin type, and file() is a new builtin
-  constructor, with the same signature as the builtin open() function.
+- The built-in file type can be subclassed now.  In the usual pattern,
+  "file" is the name of the built-in type, and file() is a new built-in
+  constructor, with the same signature as the built-in open() function.
   file() is now the preferred way to open a file.
 
@@ -6725 +6725 @@
   immutable type (int, long, float, complex, tuple, str, unicode),
   where the subtype didn't override the operation (and so the
-  operation was handled by the builtin type), could return that
+  operation was handled by the built-in type), could return that
   instance instead a value of the base type.  For example, if s was of
   a str subclass type, s[:] returned s as-is.  Now it returns a str
@@ -6773 +6773 @@
 
 - The codecs module has grown four new helper APIs to access
-  builtin codecs: getencoder(), getdecoder(), getreader(),
+  built-in codecs: getencoder(), getdecoder(), getreader(),
   getwriter().
 
@@ -7903 +7903 @@
   In all previous version of Python, names were resolved in exactly
   three namespaces -- the local namespace, the global namespace, and
-  the builtin namespace.  According to this old definition, if a
+  the builtins namespace.  According to this old definition, if a
   function A is defined within a function B, the names bound in B are
   not visible in A.  The new rules make names bound in B visible in A,
@@ -7924 +7924 @@
 
   Under the old rules, the name str in helper() is bound to the
-  builtin function str().  Under the new rules, it will be bound to
+  built-in function str().  Under the new rules, it will be bound to
   the argument named str and an error will occur when helper() is
   called.
@@ -8422 +8422 @@
 
 - Raise ZeroDivisionError when raising zero to a negative number,
-  e.g. 0.0 ** -2.0.  Note that math.pow is unrelated to the builtin
+  e.g. 0.0 ** -2.0.  Note that math.pow is unrelated to the built-in
   power operator and the result of math.pow(0.0, -2.0) will vary by
   platform.  On Linux, it raises a ValueError.
@@ -9051 +9051 @@
 overflowing the C stack and causing a core dump.  The default value is
 1000.  The maximum safe value for a particular platform can be found
-by running Misc/find_recursionlimit.py.
+by running Tools/scripts/find_recursionlimit.py.
 
 New Modules and Packages
@@ -12672 +12672 @@
 
 - Fixed some strange exceptions in __del__ methods in library modules
-(e.g. urllib).  This happens because the builtin names are already
+(e.g. urllib).  This happens because the built-in names are already
 deleted by the time __del__ is called.  The solution (a hack, but it
 works) is to set some instance variables to 0 instead of None.
@@ -13375 +13375 @@
 
 
-Changes to builtin features
----------------------------
+Changes to built-in features
+----------------------------
 
 - There's a new exception FloatingPointError (used only by Lee Busby's
@@ -14676 +14676 @@
 - New modules: errno, operator (XXX).
 
-- Changes for use with Numerical Python: builtin function slice() and
+- Changes for use with Numerical Python: built-in function slice() and
 Ellipses object, and corresponding syntax:
 
@@ -15164 +15164 @@
 - The functions posix.popen() and posix.fdopen() now have an optional
 third argument to specify the buffer size, and default their second
-(mode) argument to 'r' -- in analogy to the builtin open() function.
+(mode) argument to 'r' -- in analogy to the built-in open() function.
 The same applies to posixfile.open() and the socket method makefile().